This week I’d ordered a small item from Ninja, which was coming via Royal Mail. I thought it odd that it was being delivered from the Northampton Delivery Office, which was no-where near me.
Anyway, it was due for delivery on Thursday. An hour after the predicted delivery time I had a message to say it had been delivered. It hadn’t. But there was a confirmation photo.
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This week, a toilet paper delivery from Who Gives a Crap went awry.
Evri sent me a message to say my latest delivery (a not-small box of toilet rolls) had been delivered. It hadn’t. 5 minutes later, my doorbell rings and it’s Evri, who hand over a very tatty box – damaged in various places, including one who edge totally split. However, the toilet roll inside was fine.
The delivery was every more odd – they provided me with a confirmation photo of the delivery, which was a very blurry image of someone else at a totally different house taking delivery of it.
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6 years ago, I left the head office at Boots after nearly 30 in their IT department. I’ve not really spoken about my time there – some of it was being wary of “speaking bad” of a past employer but some of it was, genuinely, PTSD. A lot of my time there was not great.
But it’s time to change that because, like it or not, what happened has shaped me as a person, and I have a lot of stories to tell, good and bad.
Today I want to write about one of the proudest moment as a developer.
Please bear in mind that this was 30 years ago – this is to the best of my recollection and some of the information may be hazy or, unintentionally, wrong.
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Today, I’m going to document 5 things that I think WordPress plugin developers should be doing, if they’re not already.
And there may be some controversial choices here, particularly for those who develop premium plugins. One of the most popular plugins, for example, fails every single one of these.
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Back in 2016 I wrote an article about the apparent truth that coffee, and caffeine in general, affects a singing voice.
Well, now, having been told numerous times the same about chocolate, it’s time to explore this one too. So, does chocolate affect a singing voice?
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